The attack at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi could have been prevented, according to a bipartisan report the Senate Intelligence Committee released Wednesday.

The report also seeks to clarify accusations about the response to the attack by the White House. It blames intelligence agencies for incorrect talking points instead of administration officials, who Republicans have accused of covering up the reason for the attack.

“The committee worked on a bipartisan basis to investigate the various allegations that have come out since the terrorist attacks in Benghazi in September 2012 and to get to the truth about what happened leading up to, during and after the attacks,” Intelligence Chairwoman Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said in a statement. “I hope this report will put to rest many of the conspiracy theories and political accusations about what happened in Benghazi.”

The report looks at the run-up and response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. It includes a detailed narrative of what happened the night of the attack. The report is redacted in places, omitting some of the actions of CIA personnel.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said the report does not change the administration’s own conclusion that security should have been tighter in Benghazi.

“This reinforces what other investigations have found, which is that there was not security to protect the four Americans who lost their lives,” he said Wednesday.

Feinstein told reporters Wednesday afternoon that the report proves that the State Department needs to do a better job assessing risks.

“I think where this report goes is that there needs to be better analysis within State of intelligence, and that they really need to move to see that these facilities are secure,” Feinstein said. “I believe to the extent I know that that is happening. There are other facilities that are potentially dangerous, and they know which they are, and I think they need to tend to that.”

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said that while he hasn’t read the entire Senate report, he saw nothing that differed from the concurrent investigation he is conducting.

“I think their conclusions are very similar to the investigation that the House Intelligence Committee is going through,” Rogers said.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said he would like to see former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testify again about the attacks. But he raised no issues with the report.

“It was everything that we’ve been saying,” McCain said. “We’re glad to see it corroborated. Nothing that I didn’t know already.”

The report concludes there was a “significant strategic warning” about the possibility of an attack in the months leading up to it. The report details several intelligence reports, many redacted, that warned of an attack on Western establishments in Libya.

“Despite the clearly deteriorating security situation in Benghazi and requests for additional security resources, few significant improvements were made by the State Department to the security posture of the Temporary Mission Facility,” the report states. The report finds that, unlike the building maintained by State, facilities run by the CIA responded more quickly to security concerns, but the steps that were taken are redacted.

The report cautions that no one in the intelligence community was aware of specific plans for the Sept. 11 attack before it happened. A source in Libya did try to contact Libyan officials hours before the attack, the report states, but the Libyan officials were out of the country.

Addressing some of the most controversial elements surrounding the attack, the report finds that there were no military assets positioned in a place where they could have saved the Americans killed in the attack. Republicans, including several on the House Oversight Committee, have accused the administration of failing to deploy a military response to save those Americans while the compound was under attack.

The report states that the military attempted to move some assets, but only an unmanned drone was able to make it in time.

“The committee has reviewed the allegations that U.S. personnel, including the [intelligence community] or [Department of Defense], prevented the mounting of any military relief during the attacks, but the committee has not found any of these allegations to be substantiated,” the report states.

The report also addresses the controversial talking points that were used by then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice on the Sunday morning news shows days after the attack. Republicans have charged that the administration engaged in a political ploy when it changed talking points and stated the attack was prompted by a protest in response to an anti-Islam video. The report finds that the intelligence picture created after the attack was what contributed to the talking points.

“In intelligence reports after September 11, 2012, intelligence analysts inaccurately referred to the presence of a protest at the U.S. mission facility before the attack based on open source information and limited intelligence, but without sufficient intelligence or eyewitness statements to corroborate that assertion,” according to a summary of the report released by the Intelligence Committee. “The [intelligence community] took too long to correct these erroneous reports, which caused confusion and influenced the public statements of policymakers.”

Republican critics of the administration’s handling of the attack dismissed the report’s findings as lacking all the necessary facts to reach a conclusion. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said the administration has been involved in a “cover-up” to keep the facts from coming to light.

”There is never a shortage of bipartisanship when we don’t have all the facts,” Gohmert told reporters at a conservative event on Wednesday.

The report includes 18 recommendations to prevent future attacks. The committee conducted dozens of interviews and reviewed thousands of pages of intelligence, most of it behind closed doors.

“The committee’s bipartisan report provides many needed and deserved answers to the American people, and most importantly, to the families of those killed in the September 11, 2012, terrorist attacks in Benghazi,” Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), the ranking Republican on the Intelligence Committee, said in a statement. “In spite of the deteriorating security situation in Benghazi and ample strategic warnings, the United States Government simply did not do enough to prevent these attacks and ensure the safety of those serving in Benghazi.”

Among the recommendations for the intelligence community was that American agencies should more closely monitor the social media streams of extremist groups.

The report also recommends that no facility in a dangerous area should be allowed to operate unless full security measures have been taken.